People should wear name tags whenever they're in a social space. It removes a source of social anxiety (especially for neurodivergent folx).

Sticker codes are super-handy too.

For example:
🩷 flirty
💚 friendly
💛 introverted

lately I’ve been really enjoying Last Call BBS, which is the last Zachtronics game. except it’s actually a collection of minigames

there’s a minigame for assembling and painting miniatures that makes a really nice stim in roughly the same way as something like PowerWash Simulator. but really it’s more like painting and then assembling a jigsaw puzzle. a few years ago I found an Itch io game about doing this, got obsessed with it for a week or two, and wanted more ever since. the mini-painting is honestly my favorite part of the whole game

there are also a few mini Zachtronics type engineering games, including a body horror cellular automata game called X’BPGH, which has incredible vibes and I’m looking forward to playing more so I can see how the story ends (the story is about harnessing eldritch forces to program flesh to grow into a new body, made in your image, so that you can become immortal. which has got to be one of my favorite video game premises ever)

it also has two separate solitaire games! I haven’t gotten the second one yet, but the first is exactly as fun as you would expect a solitaire game to be (I actually really like solitaire)

phew… I just solved Daily Programmer #399 (which is a very easy programming puzzle, if you’re using a language you’re familiar with) in #Clojure and it was one of the most difficult programming problems I’ve solved in a very long time

my code probably looks terrible if you’re an experienced #Lisp user, but it was the best that I could figure out how to do. I’m especially unhappy with char-to-lowercase and how many layers of indentation I needed to do something so simple

here’s my solution: https://pastebin.com/u8kcTd5c

my curiosity about Lisp dialects finally got the better of me (for the second time! over a decade ago young kas bounced off of Common Lisp) and I’m currently reading Brave Clojure

so far it feels like I’ve entered an alternate timeline where some language other than C got to define what modern syntax should look like, and it’s pretty disorienting. but I bet I can get used to that part in time, and I actually think all the parenthesis look pretty cool

Amazon’s recommendations be like: I see you recently bought an expensive new power supply. would you perhaps be interested in… another expensive new power supply?

I only know about MtG from the combo that depends on the twin primes conjecture

heavy laptops are the best, I despise modern paper thin laptops

if I smash the laptop against my knee, my knee should break, not the laptop, but modern laptops would literally snap in half like a twig if I tried that with them

At a bar and need help? Order an "Angel shot".

-"with lime" means call the police.

- "on the rocks" means you need a taxi called.

- "neat" means you need an escort to your car.

You can also ask for Angela, as in "is Angela working tonight?"

See also the "help me" hand gesture: https://beige.party/@amiserabilist/114876091506990343

#Safety #Signals #PSA

yep okay I don’t like Dark Souls 3, unfortunately. they heavily nerfed my two favorite things in Dark Souls 1, which are blocking and parrying. they made dodge-rolling drastically better to compensate (you can spam it and basically just be invincible unless your timing is unlucky) but I refuse to learn to dodge-roll out of pure spite at this point

I was playing the demo for Pragma Twice when I realized that the in-game code editor was just not going to cut it for the level of overengineering that I like to do with my code

so I created a Node project and ported over all of my Bitburner config, and after around 2 hours of trial-and-error I managed to split my code into multiple files that can import each other, and now all I have to do is npm run make and it will automatically transpile into a single javascript file that is also automatically copied to my clipboard so I can paste it into the game

I’m pretty happy with that. my code went from being a mess of hacks to a well-organized codebase

I think the Borg were so much cooler before #StarTrek retconned that they have a queen and are therefore a hierarchy controlled by one mind, rather than a fully decentralized hive mind (I think that retcon comes from First Contact? which, possibly hot take, I very much disliked)

but like, the Borg used to be a dark echo of the Federation: a decentralized collective whose (seemingly) sole purpose is to force all other civilizations to lose all distinctiveness by joining them. almost like glimpsing a dark alternate timeline of what the Federation could have become, or could still become

and of course a decentralized Borg raises really interesting questions like “why does the collective always want to assimilate more, even though it’s presumably made up of minds that didn’t want to be assimilated?”. like do the Borg install a brain implant that hard-wires this desire? are the majority of the Borg actually people that like assimilation and genuinely want to force it on others?

maybe the Borg was initially created by a culture with nothing but good intentions, until some emergent property of {the networking system that connects minds in the hive} led to value drift that eventually created the remorseless expansionist Borg that we know today (which would add even more layers to the “dark echo of the Federation” angle)

I also just find the concept of a completely decentralized imperialist power horrifying and fascinating, and it’s something that I’ve never seen before or since in fiction (maybe for good reason, but still. most of my favorite scifi is all about exploring bizarre ideas - like “what would life on the surface of a neutron star be like?”)

Hey, I don't know if anyone needs this, but it's here if you do
https://no.whiteboard.codes/

I love how the word “femboy” is just, implicitly hot. like you don’t even have to specify that this is a hot femboy that you’re talking about, because they all are

some other words that work this way:

• tomboy
• twink, otter, bear, etc.
• goth, emo, punk, etc.
• catboy, catgirl, foxboy, foxgirl, etc.

now for the fun part: take one of these words and add the name of a popular sit-down restaurant chain to the end and you’ve just created a new variation on “femboy hooters”

yess KDE is working! the problem was that KDE doesn’t work if you only install plasma-meta and plasma-desktop - you have to also install at least one of the packages in plasma-x11-session (I think the specific package needed might be kwin-x11)

I added a note about that in the Arch Wiki discussion page and hopefully someone will make the edit so no one else has to go through troubleshooting this lol

trying to keep track of all kinds of messy config files, packages, systemd services, etc. while working on getting Arch working has me really appreciating the philosophy of Nix

in my Arch VM I have a ~/NOTES file where I keep track of any changes that I make to the system so that I can fix them if they stop working or bork something. but the problem is that I have to make so many changes as I troubleshoot things that it would be exhausting to keep track of all of them. and yet it always seems like I’m recording the wrong things, as I have to look up {the location for the config file for that one Python script that auto-generates a pacman mirrorlist} on the Arch wiki for the fourth time (it’s in a directory called xdg for some reason?)

so I’m left with {the information that I need in order to fix my system} scattered across multiple Arch wiki pages (assuming I can remember what to search for) as well as my own notes, which is pretty stressful. plus I don’t have any way to ask the question “what’s the state of the system right now?” like there isn’t exactly a git history for my entire virtual machine

I would really love to be able to organize my configs in a way that makes sense to me, rather than the system, and add lots of comments and documentation for my future self. and also keep all of that under version control

of course, I do not want to make learning Linux any more complex than it has to be so I’m probably not going to actually use Nix anytime soon lol

once I can get sshd working on this VM, though, I’ll probably write a Python script that compares the list of manually-installed packages with a list of packages that I hardcode in the script (with comments for what each package does and why it’s needed, and where to go to configure it, and etc.). that should help make things a little less hectic